October 2006: The city lights shine bright at 11PM as we sneak photos from Algiers Point Levee on the West Bank. The City that Care Forgot became the City that Volunteers Rebuilt. While the Central Business District and French Quarter were quickly returning to pre-Katrina normalcy, the rest of the town remained dark. Crime increased exponentially (exploding into protests by January 2007).
In September 2006 my friend Blaize and I went over to Paris Avenue near our church gathering place and took photos of the dead trees lining the street. On the left you can see the eerie scene, straight out of a horror show. Empty. Dead. The city ripped up the trees several months later. Last month (July 2010) I went back to the same spot we took those original photos. The old Catholic church off to the right has been replaced by Holy Cross School. Behind me, Edgewater has rebuilt, and the elementary school is now a brand new technology high school.
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Mississippi and New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. My friend and I drove along the Gulf Coast first in February 2006 to survey our hometowns of Long Beach and Escatawpa, Mississippi. Below: a house on the waterfront in Long Beach (top left), the remnants of the Treasure Bay Casino in Gulfport (top middle), and a storage truck in someone’s front yard in Pass Christian (top right). Bottom row: the broken cross of St. Francis Cabrini Catholic Church on Paris Avenue in New Orleans (bottom left, now the site of Holy Cross School), a bent palm tree on a windless day in Gulfport, Mississippi (bottom middle), and repairs beginning on the London Avenue Canal Levee in Gentilly, New Orleans (bottom right).
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Below is the scene in the Lower 9th Ward on July 1, 2006. Ten months after Hurricane Katrina, much of New Orleans hadn’t been touched. To this day you’ll find lots across the city that haven’t been touched since the flood. All photos, except the bottom middle photo (which was taken in nearby Chalmette) are from the Lower 9th Ward.
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When I first moved back to New Orleans in June 2006 I drove through some of the worst-flooded parts of town: Lakeshore, Gentilly, and Chalmette. Over the course of the next week I’ll be offering a selection of photos from the last 5 years in New Orleans. Below: Residents on Filmore Avenue offer their take on FEMA’s response, FEMA Farms (as we called them) in the parking lot of the UNO Lakefront Arena, and a boat washed up in a Chalmette resident’s front yard.
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by Joe Kennedy
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